Nouveautés de Rhinvoice

Cette page indique ce que chaque version de Rhinvoice a apporté, de la plus récente à la plus ancienne. Les notes de version sont affichées en anglais. Les fonctions ajoutées après la première version publique sont marquées « Depuis la version … » dans la documentation et renvoient ici. Comment mettre à jour : Mise à jour.

Version 0.8.017 October 2026

Added

• The programs for Windows and Mac can switch the update check off: "update_check": false in rhinvoice.json (Docker: RHINVOICE_UPDATE_CHECK=false).
• Customers in Germany have the field Leitweg-ID or fixed buyer reference. Entered once, it is the buyer reference of every XRechnung to that customer; otherwise the invoice's Reference is used, as before, and with a Leitweg-ID the Reference goes into the e-invoice as the order reference (BT-13). Issued invoices keep the value of the day they were issued. The customer import recognises a "Leitweg-ID" column.
• For customers in Germany, the dialog before issuing also names what the XRechnung lacks, while the invoice can still be completed. The editor says below Reference whether the customer's Leitweg-ID applies or a reference is needed for the XRechnung.
• Documents in French and Italian, as written in Switzerland: invoices, quotes, credit notes, payment reminders, e-mails, ready-made texts and the QR-bill payment part. Legal notices of Swiss and Liechtenstein companies use the terms of the VAT Act in its French (LTVA) and Italian (LIVA) version; German and Austrian companies get the mentions of the EU VAT Directive ("Autoliquidation", "inversione contabile"). Choose the language per document, per customer or as the company's default; the dunning settings have a French and an Italian text per level.
• The interface in French and Italian (Swiss variants): choose Français or Italiano with the globe icon; a browser set to French or Italian opens in that language. Amounts and dates keep the Swiss style (CHF 1’234.50, 05.01.2026). Both are machine translated; the language menu and About Rhinvoice say so and ask for corrections.
• rhinvoice.com in French (/fr/) and Italian (/it/), with legal notice and privacy notice. The docs are in French and Italian too, every page. These texts were machine-translated and say so at the top, with a link to report a wrong translation.

Version 0.7.416 October 2026

Added

• About Rhinvoice has Report a problem: it copies the version, the system and the end of the log (programs for Windows and Mac) and opens a GitHub bug report. Nothing is sent by itself.
• An update test channel: RHINVOICE_UPDATE_CHANNEL=test (or "update_channel": "test" in the programs' rhinvoice.json) also offers release candidates, for test installations.
• The programs for Windows and Mac open their window where it was closed, as large as it was (or maximized).

Fixed

• Opening a page for the first time no longer blanks the whole window for a moment; the navigation stays. The programs for Windows and Mac load all pages shortly after the start.
• On Windows the start card and the program window open in the middle of the main screen, no longer near its top left.

Version 0.7.315 October 2026

Added

• About Rhinvoice has a button Check for updates that asks for a new version right away.
• The programs for Windows and Mac show a start card with the logo and the current step right after the double-click, until their window opens.

Changed

• Starting the program for Windows and Mac a second time brings its open window to the front instead of opening another one.

Fixed

• The notice about a new version appears within a minute of starting Rhinvoice. The page asked before the first check had run and then waited an hour.

Version 0.7.215 October 2026

Fixed

• Reminders, recurring invoices and the imports lead back to their list above the title, as the documents do.

Version 0.7.115 October 2026

Changed

• The setups for Windows and Mac are smaller: the Mac disk image is packed with LZMA, and the bundled Python leaves out what Rhinvoice never uses (its tests, Tk, IDLE, pip, debug symbols). Compiled Python files are no longer shipped; the program writes them into its cache on the first start, which therefore takes a few seconds longer once.
• The Windows setup always installs into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Rhinvoice, and uninstalling removes only the parts it installed there. An installation in another folder keeps it.

Fixed

• Articles show and ask for the price in the company's currency first: euros for a company in Germany or Austria, also on a phone, where only that column fits.

Version 0.7.015 October 2026

Added

• Rhinvoice without Docker (beta): a setup for Windows 10/11 and a Mac app (macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon) with their own window and icon. They bring the database and everything else with them; PDFs are printed with Edge on Windows and with a bundled Chromium on the Mac. The data lies in the user's own folder and stays when the program is removed (ADR 0021). The setups are not signed yet: Windows and macOS ask once before they open them.
• Updates in the program: a quiet card at the foot of the sidebar and the About dialog say when a newer version exists. Without Docker one click installs it and restarts the program; a new version that does not start is taken back with the database from before it (ADR 0022). With Docker the card shows the commands. The check asks GitHub once a day for a signed release.json and can be switched off with RHINVOICE_UPDATE_CHECK=false.
• Backups without Docker: Settings → Backup chooses a folder (OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, a network drive or a USB disk) and shows the recovery key once. The program then backs up as the backup container does: daily, after issuing or cancelling documents and on request, encrypted with restic, 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly and every yearly backup kept. --restore brings a backup back, also on a new computer (ADR 0023).
• A way back from a forgotten password: Forgot password? on the login page. On a server it names the new commands rhinvoice user list and rhinvoice user reset-password; in the installation without Docker it puts a one-time code into the data folder and opens the file. A new password also ends the account's other sessions and a lock after failed logins (ADR 0024).

Fixed

• The overview shows the company's currency first. A company in Germany or Austria saw Swiss francs as soon as one document was in CHF, and before its first invoice.

Version 0.6.213 October 2026

Changed

• The original PDF of an invoice taken over from another program is fitted to the width, without the thumbnails of the browser's viewer (in Chromium browsers).

Version 0.6.113 October 2026

Fixed

• The backup container backs up at once after it created a new repository. Before, a repository made after earlier successful backups (another target, another access to the same one) stayed empty until the next daily backup, while the dashboard still showed the last successful one.
• A backup asked for while the repository is being created no longer fails with "config file already exists".

Version 0.6.013 October 2026

Added

• Writing off invoices that will not be paid: More actions → Write off … on an open invoice, with date, reason and note. The invoice stays as issued and nothing goes to the customer; it is no longer open, overdue or reminded, and it does not count as paid. A payment that comes in later is recorded as usual, and a write-off made by mistake can be taken back. Invoices taken over from another program can be written off too.
• The invoice list has the view Written off with the bad debts per year and currency: written off, paid later, loss, net and the tax contained. Each country names them and its tax rule in its own words (CH/LI Art. 41 MWSTG, DE § 17 UStG, AT § 16 UStG).

Changed

• Backups to Google Drive are documented with an OAuth client ID of your own, because rclone retires its shared one during 2026: the steps in the Google Cloud console, moving an existing backup over, and a restore test in a second installation with every command.

Version 0.5.613 October 2026

Added

• Legal notice and privacy notice on rhinvoice.com, linked from the website, the docs and the login page of the public demo. Installations of your own do not show them.

Version 0.5.513 October 2026

Added

• The logo on the login page leads to rhinvoice.com, and the strip on every page of the public demo links it too.

Version 0.5.413 October 2026

Added

• The user documentation at rhinvoice.com/docs, in English and German: getting started, the rules of each country, invoices, moving over from another program, running it, questions, and these release notes. Features newer than the first public release are marked "Since version …".
• How more company countries come in: one country profile per country, with the Netherlands as the example (docs and landing page).

Changed

• The interface links its guides (backup, installation, imports) to the docs in its own language instead of Markdown files on GitHub.

Version 0.5.313 October 2026

Fixed

• PDF footer: a long commercial register entry ran past the page edge. It now takes one line per comma-separated part ("Amtsgericht Kempten, HRB 12345"), and the label "Commercial register" is left out when the entry already names it ("Handelsregister des Kantons Zürich, …").

Version 0.5.213 October 2026

Fixed

• A session that ends while the app is open (expired, logged out elsewhere, or the hourly reset of the demo) now leads straight to the login, which says why. Before, pages showed "E-mail address or password is incorrect". The API answers such requests with the codes session_expired and not_logged_in instead of authentication_failed, which is now kept for wrong credentials.

Version 0.5.113 October 2026

Changed

• The public demo takes no uploads any more: importing customers, articles and invoices is switched off there, and the import page says how to try it on an own installation. Request bodies in the demo may have at most 2 MB.

Version 0.5.013 October 2026

Added

• Old invoices come over from the program used before, with their original PDFs: a list (CSV or Excel) and the folder of PDF files, single files or ZIP files. Each becomes a locked invoice with its number, date, customer and amounts, and its PDF as the invoice; reminders, corrections and copies of the same number are kept as attachments. Customers are found by number or name, unknown ones are created and archived. Imported invoices appear in lists (marked "Taken over"), search, the customer's history and the revenue, and open ones can be paid. The invoice sequence continues behind the imported numbers. See docs/import.md and ADR 0019.
• An imported invoice without PDF takes its PDF later on its page; further files become attachments.
• Uninstalling: how to remove the containers, data and images (docs/install.md), and the installation's name in .env (COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME).

Version 0.4.312 October 2026

Added

• Customers keep the date they became customers: the import reads it from a column such as "Kunde seit", "Angelegt am" or "Created" (14.03.2019, 2019-03-14, also with a time), also when updating customers already imported. The customer page shows it next to the number.
• The Swiss VAT rates of 2011 to 2017 (8 / 2.5 / 3.8 %): article lists of older programs with "8" as their rate import, so do documents with a supply in those years.
• Article units such as "monatlich", "pro Monat", "jährlich" or "wöchentlich".

Version 0.4.212 October 2026

Changed

• A new logo: an invoice page with the Rhine and its four countries. It is the favicon and the home-screen icon on phones, and appears in the app, on rhinvoice.com and in the previews.

Version 0.4.112 October 2026

Changed

• The public demo takes imports of at most 200 KB and 200 rows, so it cannot be filled with junk; the import page says so. Installations of your own keep their limits (5 MB, 10'000 rows).

Version 0.4.012 October 2026

Added

• PDF output through Gotenberg with a live paper preview in the editor; issued documents keep their first PDF (SHA-256).

• Swiss QR-bill (QR reference or creditor reference) for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, EPC QR code (GiroCode) for Germany and Austria and for euro invoices from Switzerland and Liechtenstein to customers in the EEA; mandatory invoice details checked before issuing.

• Print templates (classic, modern, plain) with logo position and size, font, sender line, contact details, position numbers and all bank accounts in the footer; issued documents keep the layout of the day they were issued.

• Payment reminders and dunning letters in three levels with new deadlines, optional fees and texts per language; the PDF asks for the open amount plus the fee.

• Import of customers and articles from CSV, XLSX and XLS with column mapping, test run, duplicate handling and saved templates.

• Backups with restic in their own container: daily and after issuing, to S3, SFTP, a local folder or Dropbox, Google Drive and others through rclone; state on the dashboard and in the settings, restore with make restore.

• First-start wizard (country, company) and a setup checklist on the dashboard.

• A hint in the editor when an EU business customer lacks the VAT number for reverse charge.

• E-invoices: every issued invoice and cancellation embeds a ZUGFeRD / Factur-X invoice (EN 16931) in its PDF, for all countries and switchable in the print template; XRechnung 3.0 download for German authorities; the invoice tells what is missing for either. Validated in CI with the KoSIT validator and Mustang.

• Demo data for a test installation: rhinvoice demo (or make demo) adds customers, articles and about 21 months of invoices, payments and quotes.

• The app refuses to start (and to migrate) on a database set up by a newer version, with a message that says what to do, instead of failing later on single actions.

• Recurring invoices: plans that write an invoice every month, quarter, half-year or year, as a draft, issued, or issued and sent by e-mail, with the covered period as service period. The web server writes them by itself (each period once, missed periods caught up); rhinvoice recurring does it at once. An issued invoice can be made recurring.

• Sending by e-mail: invoices, quotes, credit notes and reminders go out from Rhinvoice with their PDF (and the XRechnung on request) through the company's own mail server (SMTP), set up with a test mail under Settings → E-mail. Templates per kind and language with placeholders (new: {firma}); every mail is noted in the document's history. A refused mail shows the server's answer.

• Goods and services: articles and positions say what they supply. Goods to EU businesses with a VAT number are tax-free intra-Community supplies (e-invoice category K with the place of delivery), goods leaving the VAT area are tax-free export deliveries, also to private customers; each with its own notice, also on mixed invoices. The editor reminds of the proof of export or arrival.

• A language menu at the top right (also on the login page): Deutsch (Schweiz, Deutschland, Österreich) or English, kept per browser. Version, licence and links under "About Rhinvoice" in the account menu and at the foot of the sidebar.

• Country profiles: everything that differs between Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria (VAT law, rates, notices, mandatory details, payment codes, terms) lives in one profile per country, which the interface reads from the API. Adding a country is described in docs/adding-a-country.md.

• Demo mode (RHINVOICE_DEMO) for a public demo: the data is reset every hour, the login page logs in with one click, what would lock visitors out or send mail is refused, and logins and changes are rate-limited. deploy/demo/ runs Switzerland, Germany and Austria side by side behind Caddy, isolated from the internet.

• At most two password checks (argon2, 64 MiB each) run at the same time; a burst of logins waits instead of exhausting the memory.

Fixed

• The overview kept an empty gap at the top once the setup checklist was hidden.
• The import read a rate of 13 % as Austria's 10 % rate; rates are now read from the company's country (13 % is Austria's own rate, 16 % and 5 % German ones of 2020). A rate the country never had (e.g. 19 % for a Swiss company) is reported instead of being taken as the standard rate.
• German documents print "Ihre USt-IdNr." instead of "Ihre UID"; the tax name is "USt." everywhere.
• The first-start wizard shows the VAT rates of the day instead of fixed text.
• The 5-centime rounding and the QR-IBAN are only offered where they apply (Switzerland, Liechtenstein).
• Paying or cancelling invoices issued by an earlier version failed with a conflict.
• Cancellations without VAT wrote a tax total of "-0.00" into their e-invoice, which Mustang rejects (BR-CO-14).
• The article list's button said "Neuer Kunde".

Changed

• Rhinvoice is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later; contributions come under a contributor licence agreement. The project lives at github.com/rhinvoice/rhinvoice and its images at ghcr.io/rhinvoice/rhinvoice.
• The overview is a cockpit: revenue this year against last year with a trend line, open and overdue amounts, open quotes with the acceptance rate, open invoices by age, the longest overdue ones, the best customers, the payments to expect per week and the latest activity, per currency.
• The architecture decision records are written in English.
• All PDFs are PDF/A-3b, made from Chromium's output without changing pages, fonts or tags.

Version 0.3.011 October 2026

Added

• Quotes, invoices and cancellation invoices: create, edit, issue, mark as paid (also partially), remove payments, cancel, duplicate, turn a quote into an invoice.
• Calculation with line and document discounts, net or gross prices, VAT per rate and Swiss 5-cent rounding; dated VAT rates for Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria; automatic tax treatment (domestic, reverse charge, export, small business, exempt) with a logged manual override.
• Numbers are assigned when issuing, without gaps; issued documents are immutable (also enforced by the database), corrections only by cancellation.
• Invoice and quote lists with views (open, overdue, paid …) and full-text search; dashboard with open, overdue and paid amounts, monthly revenue and recent activity.
• Customers and articles with search, archive and document history; company, logo, bank accounts (IBAN/QR-IBAN) and number sequences in the settings.
• Login with optional two-factor authentication, keyboard shortcuts, command palette, light and dark mode, German (CH/DE/AT) and English.

Not yet included

• PDF output, Swiss QR-bill and EPC-QR, e-invoices, import, backup, onboarding assistant.

Questions fréquentes

À quelle fréquence sortent de nouvelles versions de Rhinvoice?

Rhinvoice est en version bêta (0.x) et sort souvent, parfois plusieurs fois par semaine. Chaque version figure avec sa date sur cette page et sur GitHub.

Quelle version ai-je?

La version est affichée dans l’application en bas de la barre latérale et dans la fenêtre « À propos de Rhinvoice », par exemple « v0.8.0 ». La page de connexion l’affiche sous le formulaire.

Comment passer à la version la plus récente?

Indiquez la nouvelle version dans .env et exécutez docker compose pull et docker compose up -d. La base de données est mise à jour automatiquement au démarrage. Faites d’abord une sauvegarde.